We help people aged 50+ keep active and free of pain meds even if their doctors and kids are telling them to "just take it easy."

The reason your back tightness won't go away...

One of the most common things I hear on the 1st phone call with new clients is "My back has been bothering me for X amount of time...my MRI/ X-rays say that I have degeneration, herniation, bulging, etc..." Many of those people have tried core strengthening, back stretches, pain meds, and even injections with no lasting relief. WHY?!?!

Because the focus has been on your SYMPTOMS, not the underlying PROBLEM! Chances are that up until this point, nobody qualified has actually put their hands on you to figure out what is CAUSING your symptoms. You've waited at the doctor's office for hours for him to come in for 2 minutes, just enough time to half way listen to your story and then write you a Rx for pain meds and order an X-ray. Nothing "definitive" has come back on X-ray so now here's another Rx for more pain meds and now an MRI. The MRI shows (above) so either get scheduled for surgery OR just take it easy and keep up with the pain meds...

99% of the clients I've worked with suffering from back pain have had some type of pelvis/hip issue. A very simple thing to try right now is when sitting nice and tall on a firm surface, cross your right leg over the left as a man would sit cross legged (right ankle on left thigh area). Now press gently on your right knee down towards the floor until you feel a stretch in the right hip/glute area. Take note on how that feels and then do the exact opposite with the left leg and see if there is any discrepancy between the sides.

IF you found one hip is tighter than the other, guess what??? That is now your new homework! Just do that simple stretch whenever sitting for as long as you can comfortably- shoot for AT LEAST 3 minutes. DO NOT continue if paresthesia (numbness/tingling) begins. Just relax the foot back on the ground, take a break, then repeat this process until the discrepancy dissipates.

Functional Manual Therapy™ delivers effective results by targeting the source of your ailment, opposed to treating your symptoms which is commonly found in traditional PT clinics. Whether it's acute neck pain or a 20 year history of chronic low back pain, functional manual therapy delivers immediate results by restoring the body to its natural efficient state. With this treatment technique, it's not uncommon to find the cause of rotator cuff symptoms to be inefficiencies of the cervical spine! Click on the blog link below to see a more elaborate explanation of how cervical spine dysfunction can contribute to shoulder/arm symptoms including tennis elbow and even carpal tunnel syndrome.